Local Governments and Primary Education in Uganda

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dc.contributor.authorMaractho, Emilly Comfort
dc.date.accessioned2020-02-20T13:22:05Z
dc.date.available2020-02-20T13:22:05Z
dc.date.issued2017-03
dc.description.abstractDecentralisation was one of the major reforms in the 1990s in Uganda, geared towards improving democratic governance and service delivery. However, districts have had variable performance, especially in providing primary education through public schools. In this article, I ask what explains the difference in local governments’ performance across two districts that were given similar powers and share a similar history. I explore this through in-depth interviews in the two districts and find that llocal governments are severely constrained in their performance by a lack of funds, which, along with development priorities, are controlled by the central government. Within this scenario, variable performance is explained to a great extent by the presence of donors and investments by the private sector, but that these funds are attracted to areas where greater capacity exists. While this improves education performance, it can contribute to growing inequality in educational attainment across districts.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11951/866
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherInstitute of Development Studiesen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesIDS Bulletin;48.2;
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 United States*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/us/*
dc.subjectDecentralisationen_US
dc.subjectUgandaen_US
dc.subjectService deliveryen_US
dc.subjectPrimary educationen_US
dc.subjectDonorsen_US
dc.titleLocal Governments and Primary Education in Ugandaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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